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Henry Popkin
Four modern plays (second series)
En anglais – 1°) IBSEN – Rosmersholm 2°) WILDE – The importance of being earnest 3°) ROSTAND – Cirano de Bergerac 4°) GORKI – The lower depths
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Boule de suif
Rouen, occupé par les Prussiens, durant la guerre de 1870. Des bourgeois tentent de fuir la ville en diligence. Parmi eux se trouve une prostituée, celle qu’on surnomme Boule de suif. Tous vont abuser de sa générosité et la forcer à céder au chantage sexuel d’un Prussien. Maupassant dresse ici un portrait inégalé de l’hypocrisie et de la lâcheté humaines. Il condamne sans appel la guerre et la classe dirigeante, paternaliste et profiteuse. Il nous communique toute sa tendresse pour une fille au grand coeur, symbole d’une résistance vouée à l’échec.
The Golden Egg
En Anglais – In The Golden Egg, as the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, Vice Questore Patta asks Brunetti to look into a minor shop-keeping violation committed by the mayor's future daughter-in-law. Brunetti has no interest in helping his boss amass political favors, but he has little choice but to comply. Then Brunetti's wife, Paola, comes to him with a request of her own. The mentally handicapped man who worked at their dry cleaner has just died of a sleeping pill overdose, and Paola loathes the idea that he lived and died without anyone noticing him, or helping him.Brunetti begins to investigate the death and is surprised when he finds nothing on the man: no birth certificate, no passport, no driver's license, no credit cards. As far as the Italian government is concerned, he never existed. Stranger still, the dead man's mother refuses to speak to the police, and assures Brunetti that her son's identification papers were stolen in a burglary.
Choix de Poésies
C’est en 1891 que Verlaine fit paraître son propre Choix de poésies. Il rassemble des pièces des Poèmes saturniens, des Fêtes galantes, de La Bonne Chanson, des Romances sans paroles, que le poète composa en 1874 à la prison de Mons où il était enfermé pour avoir tiré sur Rimbaud), etc.
Trainspotting
En italien – Un pugno di ragazzi a Edimburgo e dintorni: il sesso, lo sballo, la rabbia, il vuoto delle giornate. Sono i dannati di un modernissimo inferno « chimico », con la loro vita sfilacciata e senza scampo. Alla ricerca di un riscatto, di un senso da dare alla propria esistenza – che non sia il vicolo cieco fatto di casa, famiglia e impiego ordinario – trovano nella droga e nella violenza l’unica risposta possibile. Sboccato, indiavolato, travolgente: l’esordio di un talento letterario, il romanzo shock che ha fatto epoca e dato voce a una nuova generazione.